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In the run-up to shedding "least developed country" status in 2017, the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is working with UNCTAD to revisit their trade policy and develop a national action plan to boost production and export coconut oil, single origin organic cocoa and high quality sandalwood oil, among other "green" products.

​UNCTAD's Economic Development in Africa Report 2014, launched on 3 July, shows that there are structural problems in the pattern of growth in Africa and that these require a move away from consumption to coherent investment policies.

​UNCTAD held a panel discussion with the secretariat of the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) about the consequences for West African countries of the WTO's Bali Trade Facilitation Agreement in Banjul, the Gambia, on 17 June 2014.